Maternal and child health nursing /
A. Joy Ingalls, M. Constance Salerno.
- 5th edition.
- St. Louis : The C.V. Mosby company, c1983.
- xii, 804 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Female reproductive anatomy 2. The menstrual cycle 3. The male parent: his contribution 4. Embryology, fetal development, and signs and symptoms of pregnancy 5. Prenatal care 6. Presentations, positions, and progress 7. Labor and birth 8. Pain relief during labor and birth 9. Complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth 10. The postpartal period 11. Population, ecology, and reproduction 12. The normal newborn infant 13. Care of the normal newborn infant 14. Infants with special needs: prematurity and abnormality 15. Intensive care of the newborn 16. Structural, functional, and psychologic changes in the child 17. Ages and stages of childhood and youth 18. Preventive pediatrics 19. Hospitalization of the child 20. Rehabilitation of the long-term pediatric patient 21. The dying child, the family, and the nurse 22. Hospital admission and discharge 23. Basic patient needs and daily planning 1. Common diagnostic tests used in evaluating maternal and child health 24. The child surgical patient 25. Aiding respiration and oxygenation 26. Traction, casting, and braces. Methods of temperature control and therapeutic uses of heat and cold 27. Conditions involving the integumentary system 28. Infection precautions and childhood communicable diseases 29. Conditions involving the neuromuscular and skeletal systems 30. Conditions involving the respiratory and circulatory systems 31. Conditions involving digestion and associated metabolism 32. Conditions involving the genitourinary system.